SAP’s next generation data warehouse solution SAP BW/4HANA is now generally available since September 2016. It is a new product built entirely on the in-memory platform SAP HANA with a simple set of objects for your data warehousing requirements. It is available for use by anyone with data warehousing needs which can include data from SAP and non-SAP data sources.
As with SAP BW, third-party applications can be integrated with SAP BW/4HANA via certain interfaces and we are happy to inform the availability of certification scenarios for such integrations with third party applications.
What are the next-step options?
If you are using BW on HANA already, moving to BW/4HANA will require you to convert your object set again (potentially semi-automatic). Good for this current client of mine as they can go through this only once, should they decide to upgrade rather than start anew.
